vvita .. *5BK -,al Ballet at Pet a P\f thaWBk ■!«' was taken in ' tho dan« •"• an(1 from tIien 'L was iS kef}t lianl at u

• » the vfillo1 ' a,,(1 movements iaJ*tr> —i-es for which Rus "tai .litis that n-lillo hto z was titW' ,,ls education >t Deglecp&Kj i hool-teacliers were stent upomBo , ^ the ballet-master, jentiflcall/®. ■> physical training and in hnfflf Hie other tuition. A would ex^P' " pupils regularly to every muse® • right and all of the he proper J^e ' 'iiless a dancer kept a Mous propOJfic ■" his physical develop ed remain®! -rang as well as swift, iperial Ball# >uld have no place for That Yakojjfen;.•> lias kept his strength { as his 8^| i proved in "The Follies"

ie lifts Vm I'• ir t*f well over his head 'a danceaBthi'iit any apparent effort, istandlnff^ge i'urt that his partner is lOst 3%«

' i "SevelilByr '<> Baldpate" was being

pd ftt.iwfflCi'iierion Theatre, Sydney, pe CobaJ^ M rs. Fred Niblo) gave a fiellgbfe^Se point od to the monogram cartein-^Ml.c. The letters referred to "fMeyn^lJBd (.'mm, the firm that held

{e prio^JWtii'1 amalgamation, but Miss fhoughtl®t i hov stood for George M. her hrotMr, ami that they had been there asm subtle compliment to the

) : f Barry Crossed the window of '; idon SttinHS i" .Melbourne on behalf of . gian Putf® ii»i' which the sum of £52 . jected, til popular comedian has been ivi ied with''Miii-sts from shopkeepers who IV,; bis servfqls for a similar purpose. > l ihoweverjffliiivc their own interests to

17. [and not<Hie Molgian Fund. One shop* b: Iwrote:.you will" coma along and il;. iy wlndo# so us to bring business I t.|,r..you ftvbfpcr cent, of the takings for

r, which pou can keep for yourself." ,1,. lagnanlmlty of some people is stupen n;v, jbommenteS the comedian.

-si jime has ia|>w conic when there is noth Fr.-'i 'th recordfttj; in the fact that such and

I Lstage faviSfriic bus been up in an aero v ; ^Nearly .eiien artist of note has been ;i;: lihas claliafed to have been up at one

! another^-Few, however, can boast of jord; heldspy lsabelle D'Armond, the /tmerlcah®jonnulienne, who will appear [first tliaffin Melbourne with "The Fol | the TlroE Tlieatre on Saturday after 1 ,She starj^fc off bv putting up a record

tig the fitfgt aiil west of the Rocky si: Jns to goStlof,. The trip was success

-1 the next|[iscf nl made by the man who f Prov6difetaI, Something went wrong in- , mac^3f' al|f' he was smashed to .y'Vi Mlw TCariuond made her second fly

controlled by artists who photographs which, for na -tiful roundness of lighting llence of finish, it would he

anywhere. Wedding and .particular appear to- he the

which is rapidly taking a

hst the leading photograph

■mwealth.***

.Moiuy Wolf, out- of tin' comedians who will appear with the "Follies" at the Tivoli Thea uv on Saturday next, has a powerful voice, which has made him fatuous throughout Amer ica. A joke recorded of him tells how in a town in the States he was playing at one vaudeville house, and only about loo yards away was another music hall. During oiie of the performances the manager of the show in which Wolf was not sent over a playful note to the manager of the show in which lie was, saying, "I think we had better share Monty Wolf's salary; my audience can hear him as well as yours."

Laura Guerite, who will make her last ap pearance at the Tivoli on Thursday, is another artiste to go away from Melbourne charmed with the kindness of the audiences. She claims that she has never had a better time with the public than she has had here. Every mail she receives letters from people whom she has never met, thanking her for the en tertainment she has given them. Requests foi photos run into hundreds, but still she has always found time to send them along, so it is hot to be wondered at that she is popular. Last week she received a queer collection of gifts, which were handed lip over the footlights. There were three bulky parcels, and when they were opened up in the dressing-room they caused 110 end of a surprise. The first con tained a huge cake. There was a note with it, saying that as Miss Guerite lived at a hotel she would probably enjoy a piece of real home made food. She did. The second present was a box of home-made sweets, and the third was a handsome pair of carved emu eggs.

Leonard Stephens, who is playing the Jap anese butler in "Bought and Paid For" at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, was for years as sociated with comedy, and has only compara tively recently played in drama. 1111 South Africa he starred in "Are You a .Mason?" "The Private Secretary," "Charley's Aunt," and oilier plays of this type. He played the lead ing part in the first-mentioned comedy in South Africa for over 500 nights. For nearly five years he played under the management of Leonard Rayne, then set out with his own company. He confesses, however, that though he made a good deal of money, he subsequent ly lost it more rapidly than he acquired it, and his remembrances of active management on his own account are hardly pleasant ones.

That peculiar "something" \vc call person ality, that counts for so much in the success of an acior, is possessed by Fred Niblo to a remarkable degree. He makes it felt amongst the audience even more in "Seven Keys to KaldpatO," with its many dramatic moments, than in "Get-Rich-Quick NVallingford" or "The Fortune Hunter." An American newspape

writer once said of Fred Niblo: "If he just came on to bring a telegram on a salver, with out opening his mouth, the audience woyld say,

'Gee! Who's that?'"

Another recruit from the legitimate stage to vaudeville who has made good and likes the change is Jack Cannot, who, after severing his connection with the firm of J. C. William son, was engaged by Mr. H. D. Mcintosh to strengthen the company which opened at the Sydney Tivoli at the end of last year in "The Follies." In some quarters it was claimed that. Mr. Cannot would not prove as successful in a music hall as in comic opera or panto mime, but his work in the Follies has dis proved this entirely, for he has enhanced the splendid name he made as a comedian by his ability to adapt himself to his changed condl* tions. He got right down to the new element, from the start, and it is said that his first per formance was worthy of a man who had been in vaudeville all his life. He carried with him ail the personality which went so far to make him a success in his former sphere, and the wider scope allowed him in "The Follies" he took full advantage of. The Melbourne public will be given an opportunity of judging for themselves Mr. Cannot's ability in vaudeville, as he will appear with "The Follies" at the Tivoli Theatre on Saturday afternoon.